BoomGrow Productions Sdn Bhd, a vertical farm supplier, collaborated with CelcomDigi Berhad to enhance its container farms with real-time monitoring, precise control of farming environments, and predictive analytics that led to increased crop yields and overall resource efficiency. In the launch of the collaboration at Paragon Mall based in George Town, a container farm was placed outside the shopping complex.
BoomGrow's chief executive officer and co-founder, Murali Krishnamurthy, said "Currently, two of our farms have 5G connectivity, including this one in Penang." They need data analytics that is supported by machine learning and AI models so that they have access to real time data to make predictive decisions around plant growth, plant health, yield management, and nutrition content.
He said they could also implement virtual training programs via extended reality in which agronomists were trained in a centralized physical manner in the Klang Valley before they were deployed to the decentralized farms. In the launch of the collaboration between BoomGrow and CelcomDigi at Paragon Mall here today, a machine farm contained within a 45-feet container, was placed just outside the mall.
The vertical farm is expected to yield 500 kg to 700kg of vegetables each month to supply to restaurants in the mall and nearby hotels and restaurants. "BoomGrow has managed to grow vegetables in containers," Digital Minister Gobind Singh said in his speech at the launch.
Source: Malay Mail